IX.
How Siegfried bare Tidings to the Royal City
Now when they had so sailed onward for nine days over the sea,
Then out spake Hagen of Troneg: “I pray you, hearken to me:
Lo, here we tarry from sending the tidings to Worms on Rhine;
Yet by this in the land Burgundian should they be, those heralds of thine.”
Made answer to him King Gunther: “Of a truth good counsel is this;
And to send as our tidings-bearer were none so meet, I wis,
As thou thyself, friend Hagen; thou unto my land ride on.
Our royal journey may no man better than thou make known.”
“Now nay, Lord King, of heralds nowise the best should I be.